Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 by Andreas Bechtolsheim, an electrical engineering PhD student in
the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL), Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla, roommates at Stanford's
Graduate School of Business, and Bill Joy, a PhD student in computer science at the University
of Califomia, Berkeley.

Sun's first product was the brainchild of Bechtolsheim. He built his first
workstation out of spare parts scrounged from the Department of Computer Science and Silicon Valley
supply houses. In 1982, he teamed with McNealy, Khosla and Joy to found Sun which is an acronym for
Stanford University Network, the communications project for which Bechtolsheim designed his workstation.

Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Portion of above written by Carolyn Tajnai,
From the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon Valley: A Study of Stanford
University's Role in the Transformation